But I
Remember (And Surely It Is Singular) That About Five Years Ago, On
My First Entrance Into Leipzig, I Had The Very Same Sensations I Now
Felt.
It is possible that the high houses, by which the streets at
Leipzig are partly darkened, the great number of shops, and the
crowd of people, such as till then I had never seen, might have some
faint resemblance with the scene now surrounding me in London.
There are everywhere leading from the Strand to the Thames, some
well-built, lesser, or subordinate streets, of which the Adelphi
Buildings are now by far the foremost. One district in this
neighbourhood goes by the name of York Buildings, and in this lies
George Street, where my two travelling companions lived. There
reigns in those smaller streets towards the Thames so pleasing a
calm, compared to the tumult and bustle of people, and carriages,
and horses, that are constantly going up and down the Strand, that
in going into one of them you can hardly help fancying yourself
removed at a distance from the noise of the city, even whilst the
noisiest part of it is still so near at hand.
It might be about ten or eleven o'clock when we arrived here. After
the two Englishmen had first given me some breakfast at their
lodgings, which consisted of tea and bread and butter, they went
about with me themselves, in their own neighbourhood, in search of
an apartment, which they at length procured for me for sixteen
shillings a week, at the house of a tailor's widow who lived
opposite to them.
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